Away at ClubFest near Kelmarsh Hall, Northampton and just see a load of Paramotors flying by. Basically parachute wings with person suspended with motor on their backs.
In the absence of flying and gliding this might be a go to activity to fill cadets adrenaline needs!
Launch from walking on the ground - current weather conditions seem optimal!
Funnily enough, I have just been watching a clip from yesterday…
Also lots of other similar airsports, like parascending. There’s a club just off the M25 by Biggin Hill called Green Dragon airports who run activities like parascending, hang gliding, paragliding etc for other youth groups, no idea if RAFAC would be allowed to do that sort of thing?
You’ve joined too late!!
RAFAC used to pick up courses at the Joint Services Hang Gliding and Paragliding Centre Crickhowell until (I think!) around 2012ish???
They were often a week long course which involved some classroom theory work before driving up to Lord Hereford’s Knob (lol) or Hay Buff and getting a different kind of air time - but still just as awesome!
Then it - along with many other things - got canned.
Used to be part of the scholarship scheme too!
Oh what a surprise!
If it’s anything that will give the kids a thrill let’s kill it or pause it!
The Ivory Towers at Cranditz had several ambulances arrive at speed, blue lights, the works.
The paramedics loaded up the ambulances with all the RAFAC staff involved in cadet flying trg.
An unofficial source reported that the staff members concerned had heard rumours that CFAVs had suggested that cadets could fly in paramotors or similar. The staff members had all rushed to the store cupboards containing the stocks of cotton wool, & couldn’t cope when they found that the cupboards were empty! 
There are Sea Cadets, Royal Marine Cadets and Army Cadets and others but bear with me.
How about Parachute Regiment Cadets?
I wonder what they would get up to? Flying & Parachuting - Yeh give me some more of that please!
There are Parachute Regiment detachments in the Army Cadets.
Strangely, they wear the cap badge on a navy blue beret: even though everyone knows it’s the wings that are earned and not the beret.
Other arms can’t wear the maroon beret until they’ve completed P Company, and the ACF would most certainly be seen as another arm regardless of the capbadge sponsoring them; hence the navy berets.
That can’t been true for a long time. Everyone attached to 16 AA BCT wears it now and Para Reg recruits wear it during training at Catterick.
It really is no different to the various other colours of beret, all worn by affiliated ACF units.
To my knowledge, the only beret that is a qualification in itself is the commando green one (non-commando trained recruits, musicians, cadets, etc. wear the RM cap badge on a navy beret with a red patch).
TCAS?
Topic is paragliders, not paratroopers.
